Eric Watkins is a leading historian of philosophy who focuses on the history of modern philosophy, specializing in Kant. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to many articles in international journals he has published several books, including Kant and the Sciences (OUP 2001), Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (2005), Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (2009), and Immanuel Kant: Natural Science (2012). He has received fellowships or grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and the Templeton Foundation.

Nadler gives us a remarkably accessible and historically rich picture of Descartes's life and thought. The book provides a reliable and lively introduction to Descartes for the general reader and for scholars a pleasant portrait of Descartes.

• Contributors ; Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part 1: The Medieval Period ; Chapter 1: Powers Versus Laws: God and the Order of the World According to Some Late Medieval Aristotelians ; Marilyn McCord Adams ; Chapter 2: The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence ; Steven Nadler ; Part 2: The Early Modern Period ; Chapter 3: God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes and Spinoza ; Daniel Garber ; Chapter 4: Malebranche's Causal Concepts ; Robert Merrihew Adams ; Chapter 5: Laws and Order: Malebranche, Berkeley, Hume ; Tad Schmaltz ; Chapter 6: Laws of Nature in Seventeenth-Century England: From Cambridge Platonism to Newtonianism ; Peter Harrison ; Chapter 7: Laws and Powers in Leibniz ; Donald Rutherford ; Chapter 8: Change in the Monad ; Martha Brandt Bolton ; Part 3: Kant ; Chapter 9: Rational Hope, Moral Order, and the Revolution of the Will ; Andrew Chignell ; Chapter 10: Kant on the Natural, Moral, Human, and Divine Order ; Eric Watkins ; Index

Eric Watkins is a leading historian of philosophy who focuses on the history of modern philosophy, specializing in Kant. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to many articles in international journals he has published several books, including Kant and the Sciences (OUP 2001), Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (2005), Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (2009), and Immanuel Kant: Natural Science (2012). He has received fellowships or grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and the Templeton Foundation.

Nadler gives us a remarkably accessible and historically rich picture of Descartes's life and thought. The book provides a reliable and lively introduction to Descartes for the general reader and for scholars a pleasant portrait of Descartes.

• Contributors ; Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part 1: The Medieval Period ; Chapter 1: Powers Versus Laws: God and the Order of the World According to Some Late Medieval Aristotelians ; Marilyn McCord Adams ; Chapter 2: The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence ; Steven Nadler ; Part 2: The Early Modern Period ; Chapter 3: God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes and Spinoza ; Daniel Garber ; Chapter 4: Malebranche's Causal Concepts ; Robert Merrihew Adams ; Chapter 5: Laws and Order: Malebranche, Berkeley, Hume ; Tad Schmaltz ; Chapter 6: Laws of Nature in Seventeenth-Century England: From Cambridge Platonism to Newtonianism ; Peter Harrison ; Chapter 7: Laws and Powers in Leibniz ; Donald Rutherford ; Chapter 8: Change in the Monad ; Martha Brandt Bolton ; Part 3: Kant ; Chapter 9: Rational Hope, Moral Order, and the Revolution of the Will ; Andrew Chignell ; Chapter 10: Kant on the Natural, Moral, Human, and Divine Order ; Eric Watkins ; Index

Eric Watkins is a leading historian of philosophy who focuses on the history of modern philosophy, specializing in Kant. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to many articles in international journals he has published several books, including Kant and the Sciences (OUP 2001), Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (2005), Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials (2009), and Immanuel Kant: Natural Science (2012). He has received fellowships or grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, and the Templeton Foundation.

Nadler gives us a remarkably accessible and historically rich picture of Descartes's life and thought. The book provides a reliable and lively introduction to Descartes for the general reader and for scholars a pleasant portrait of Descartes.

• Contributors ; Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part 1: The Medieval Period ; Chapter 1: Powers Versus Laws: God and the Order of the World According to Some Late Medieval Aristotelians ; Marilyn McCord Adams ; Chapter 2: The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence ; Steven Nadler ; Part 2: The Early Modern Period ; Chapter 3: God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes and Spinoza ; Daniel Garber ; Chapter 4: Malebranche's Causal Concepts ; Robert Merrihew Adams ; Chapter 5: Laws and Order: Malebranche, Berkeley, Hume ; Tad Schmaltz ; Chapter 6: Laws of Nature in Seventeenth-Century England: From Cambridge Platonism to Newtonianism ; Peter Harrison ; Chapter 7: Laws and Powers in Leibniz ; Donald Rutherford ; Chapter 8: Change in the Monad ; Martha Brandt Bolton ; Part 3: Kant ; Chapter 9: Rational Hope, Moral Order, and the Revolution of the Will ; Andrew Chignell ; Chapter 10: Kant on the Natural, Moral, Human, and Divine Order ; Eric Watkins ; Index